It sure is exciting to finally get to the end game. Now we can do some really cool stuff with our maxed out gear and high-level trinkets. However, just because you feel indestructible doesn’t mean you actually are, no matter how many buffs you have or the number of consumables in your massive 16 slot bags.
Molten Core is one of the first raids most players experience in Classic World of Warcraft, and it’s fairly simple as far as the mechanics go. That’s one of the reasons it’s fairly easy to mess around and find crazy and hilarious things to do. Here are ten fun things you can do in Molten Core, but you probably shouldn’t.
10 Gank Anyone from the Opposing Faction Near the Portal
This is always fun, so it’s hard to resist. Blackrock Mountain is often a war zone anyway, with virtual armies of high-level characters traveling through the molten bowels to various dungeons and raids clashing for honor and entertainment. However, this will not only wipe out your world buffs you spent the last few hours saving, but it’ll also cut into your precious raid time. Do you want to hit those loot piñatas or not?
9 Forget to Douse
Finally, after a wipe or two, you’ve downed a tough boss in Molten Core. You were so stoked after that purple item dropped, the one you had been waiting to see for months, and you actually won when you rolled on it! Maybe even an Epic item dropped, like Sulfuras, Hand of Ragnaros or Thunderfury, Blessed Blade of the Windseeker. Then you and your happy group get to celebrate all the way until Majordomo Executus.
Except that he isn’t there, because someone forgot to douse a rune. You understand why this is important once you have a friendly chat with the Hydraxian Waterlords. In the meantime, enjoy a scenic run back through Molten Core.
8 Blow Up Your Buddies
His name is Barron Geddon, and all of his attacks and abilities revolve around fire damage. The most sudden and devastating is the Living Bomb. If you don’t have a helpful add-on to tell you when this debuff is cast on you, and you don’t pay attention to the raid leader at this crucial moment, you’ll be standing ten deep with your raid buddies when it goes off. Not only do you die, so does almost everyone standing near you. This is especially fun if you take out a tank and the Baron runs rampant over the whole raid. Oh, the hilarity!
7 Miss Your Banish Assignment
As if the other rock elementals in Molten Core weren’t annoying enough, with their knockback and stun abilities. Garr is a boss that’s one of them, plus he pats around with several of his smaller, equally annoying entourage. These are elementals, which means Warlocks actually have something to do other than just melt stuff for a change. You’ve got one job, Warlocks, but if you find a way to mess it up the raid leader will reach through the screen and put their thumb in your eye. However, they can’t actually do that, so you can just turn your mic off and snicker about it.
6 Be a Squishy Caster Tank
Nobody understands the compulsions of Warlocks and Mages. Why cant the Tanks and raid leaders understand that being on top of the threat meter is a good thing? That means we’re doing all kinds of crazy damage, right? The clothie repair bill isn’t that expensive and we worked damn hard to get the DPS meter this high, why hold back? If only you could see the Healers roll their eyes as you totally ignore the threat meter you downloaded for no reason. That would be so funny.
5 Enjoy a Toasty Warm Lava Dip
It’s only a pool of molten rock if you don’t know the basic “lava jump” or lack self-healing abilities. If you do, it’s a big red jacuzzi nestled in the center of a giant toasty cinnamon bun. You might end up taking a swim by accident at another point in the raid, which won’t be so great because you might not be able to get out. A victory dip after downing Ragnaros himself is less of a guilty pleasure and much more rewarding.
4 Rouse the Ninja Giant
These are some of the biggest trash mobs you’ll see in any dungeon. They are several stories tall, clumsy, imposing, and somehow very sneaky. It’s a whole lot of fun when one takes an unsuspecting player completely by surprise, especially if the raid is busy with other trash pulls at the time, or even better, fighting a boss! If you want this to be even more hilarious, wait for a few seconds before letting anyone know the ninja giant found you. The raid won’t even know what hit them.
3 “You’ve Got Some Mana? Pulling!”
It’s so much fun to yell this just as the casters and healers are starting to drink. Watch how fast they all jump! Ha ha! So much fun, it’s hard to resist, we know. We also know there are three full hours of Molten Core to get through, and that’s assuming all goes as planned, but it’s going to take that much longer if we keep wiping. It takes more than a few minutes to rez a whole raid. Granted, if you’re an experienced raider with a decent team backing you up, this is fun in a good way.
2 Yap About Inane Stuff During Boss Fights
Are we doing Onyxia after this? Who here is attuned for Blackwing Lair? Did anyone see that new comic book movie? Listen to this hilarious joke! Wow, all of that sure is funny! We can laugh even more about it during the corpse run back to the dungeon.
Discord isn’t Ventrilo, ok? It’s not just a fun accessory that you can secretly tune into at work when you’re bored or lonely. The boss fights in MC can be complex, so listen more than you talk especially during boss fights. Unless you have something really funny to say, then go for it.
1 MS? OS? Who cares. Roll on Everything.
If you want to have some real fun, just use the usual loot options and just trust that everyone will only roll Need on what they Need and actually wear the gear that they win. Even better, change the loot to Free-for-All. Grab some popcorn, sit back and watch the sparks fly! If you want to have a less exciting time when it comes to loot, your raid leaders can use some kind of protocol depending on the composition of your raid, like the Master Looter feature. But that makes too much sense and is much less entertaining.
